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I am part of this group in Facebook called ERA NOW. They are an organization dedicated to the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Some people may think we don’t need the ERA, because societal progress has eradicated the need for it. Not true. From women still making 77 cents to every dollar a man earns, to a woman who just got fired for being “to attractive,” our rights that have been hard fought for in the second wave, are being attacked. Enough is enough.

Here is a petition to sign in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. It is our White House petition drive, and we need 25,000 signatures by February 10. Please sign and share this petition with all of your friends. Although the ERA failed to be ratified the first time around, let us make sure we finish what they started.

Anayvette has over 15 years of experience working with nonprofits and youth. After feeling conflicted about her daughter’s desire to join the local Girl Scouts troop, Anayvette and her co-founder Marilyn Hollinquest created their own organization in Oakland that teaches young girls of color about social justice activism, from radical beauty to the environment and beyond.

The Radical _____ are currently electing their new name with leadership from their girls and ...

Let’s call it the micro-novel. Characterized by an assemblage of fragments, the micro-novel understands itself as a work in miniature. Its organizing units––single sentences, short chapters, or anaphoric phrases––add up to small, slender books, about the length of a novella, but with a focus on formal experimentation. They prioritize variations on a theme, explorations of a process, over the unity of a narrative.

Although the form technically leaves the author free to experiment with subjects, the micro-novel’s greatest practitioners have consistently chosen similar concerns: 1) quasi-autobiographical explorations of mortality and its associations (aging, slowing, inertia, ennui), 2) art-making as simultaneously a refuge and reckoning with one’s own mortality/decay/statis, 3) neo-cubist references that refract philosophical, personal, and literary reflections on subjects ...

Let’s call it the micro-novel. Characterized by an assemblage of fragments, the micro-novel understands itself as a work in miniature. Its organizing units––single sentences, short chapters, or anaphoric phrases––add up to small, slender books, about the ...

In high school, my friend Jess made me a mix tape with Sleater-Kinney’s “Dig Me Out” on it, alongside some Tori Amos and some Smoking Popes. We played that thing into the ground, listening to it in my 1988 Saab as we zipped around back country roads during long, hot summer nights. It was 2000 and a time in our lives of rawness. Transitions every which way we turned; deep and unrequited crushes; the budding of even deeper female friendship; the untimely death of a beloved cousin. We held hands and loved each other, Jess and I. Later we grew apart, though I think somehow we knew that was ...

Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site.

In high school, my friend Jess made me a mix tape with Sleater-Kinney’s “Dig Me Out” on it, alongside some Tori Amos and some Smoking Popes. We ...